Haitian sovereignty is everywhere in a 1964 painting by the Haitian painter Pauleus Vital. Born in Jacmel in 1918 and active during the late 1960s through his death in the 1980s, Vital... Read more »
The premise is this. Piglet is in her early 30s and engaged to the ostensibly perfect Kit. The couple have recently moved into a new-build in Oxford, not far from Kit’s parents.... Read more »
A rare copy of the first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man has sold for more than £1m. The comic, published in March 1963, reached a record-setting $1.38m (£1.1m) at auction. It is... Read more »
“Unbelievable—another year without a message of peace and good will from planet Earth.” Source link Read more »
In 1532, when the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina became the law of the Holy Roman Empire, it specified that witchcraft was a serious crime, punishable by execution by fire. The Carolina was often... Read more »
Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of... Read more »
Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel, The Vulnerables, emerges from the words of others. The first line comes not from the narrator herself, but from another work she now barely recalls. From there it’s... Read more »
The British Library is restoring online its main catalogue, containing 36m records of printed and rare books, maps, journals and music scores, 11 weeks after a catastrophic cyber-attack. However, access is limited... Read more »
The Presidential hopeful bows out, backlit by sunset. Source link Read more »